A few things to remember for sure when you’re learning drawing, fashion design, or fashion illustration:
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- love yourself where you are at here, now (beginning a new skill may feel overwhelming)
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- think often about where you want to go…. not in despair, but in the joy of imagining the feelings and images of when you “get there”
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- have a great dream, and also appreciate the wonder and beauty of the dream of TODAY There’s always so much to appreciate.
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- love the adventurous journey that brings you toward your dream.
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- accept that there will be ups and downs along your path– that’s your “GPS” guiding you and telling you where to go and how. Ups and down help you become your own best friend and get to know, love and embrace yourself as never before.
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- in doing, you come closer and closer to your goal-= and most especially to your SELF!
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- but you get to love yourself where you are at...you’ll get where you need to be in PERFECT TIME
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- the journey is the most amazing lesson and gift in itself
- we are all students….and teachers
(I reminding myself too, here, every day)…
How would you like to enroll in a beginner masterclass series?
TODAY< I’m inviting you join my “boost” course called “Everything but the Girl” for a real GAME CHANGER in your drawing practice. Check it out here.
It‘s a seemingly simple yet disarming fashion illustration course with exercises for you to try, and then demonstrated it for you in in the course.
PLUMBLINES/ BALANCE LINES, PURE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL lines
My whole world changed when I realized that there were so many truly useful tools that could help me be precise and accurate in my fashion sketching skills. Not physical tools that I had to buy. Not software that I had to subscribe to.
Tools that I could incorporate one by one by practicing them, and then integrating them into my way of moving and seeing.
After that, whenever I felt stuck or lost in a drawing, I had a whole “BOX OF TOOLS” living inside of me that I could reach in and bring out to help me.
In addition to the “TOOLS” course, I created deep-dive program to deliver as many of the drawing tools that I relied on all in one journey, building intentionally for a round, full experience in fashion drawing. That’s MODEL DRAWING MAGIC.
I designed it myself, and host it inside Ruzuku, an online course platform so you can share your drawings and see fashion drawings from others in the class, and have conversations there, if you like, or ask me questions.
(and I just love that part!)
…It gives you the flavor of my online fashion illustration courses online for design.
Because It involves the kinds of provocative exercises that take you away entirely from the way you’ve been approaching fashion drawing and even the way you’ve been SEEING. It creates embodied experience by having you use different tools and materials to feel into new ways of moving, too.
LEARN TO SEE FASHION FIGURES AS PURE SHAPE/SILHOUETTE
Isn’t it time to break loose from the limited range of expression you’ve had and bring more raw truth and dynamic expression into your fashion design illustration?
A BEGINNER FASHION DESIGN AND DRAWING COURSE THAT CHANGES THE WAY YOU SEE AND DRAW
My premium online courses take a similar format, only we have about an hour of videos each week plus assignment exercises and design projects each week, with lots of feedback and attention as you need it. At the price of a single college credit, you get a deep experience of my college level content and 25 years experience teaching at a leading fashion institution in NYC. Plus my sheer love of creativity and helping bring out the BEST in you!
This gives you a taste of the course format. And there are some segments still to come.
Above all, have fun! The beauty will follow those good feelings. Turn up some good tunes!
love,
Laura
